Epiphanes

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Epiphanes (* in the late 1st or early 2nd century on Kefalonia ) was a Gnostic .

He is said to have been a successor or son of Carpocrates (whose historical existence is disputed) and his wife Alexandria of Kefalonia. Epiphanes lived in Sami and died at the age of seventeen, but left a work On Justice . It describes the differences between slaves and free, rich and poor, etc. as not being natural. Parts of his teaching have come down to us from Clement of Alexandria .

After his untimely death he was worshiped as a god by the Cephalli, which led to the assumption that Epiphanes was not a person, but a moon god. A festival was celebrated in his honor at every new moon. His followers built a temple in his honor.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Large Conversation Lexicon: Epiphănes. In: zeno.org. 1905, accessed January 1, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Jan Rohls: History of Ethics. Mohr Siebeck, 1999, ISBN 9783161467066 , p. 136. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Epiphanes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Gnostic
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century or 2nd century
PLACE OF BIRTH Kefalonia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century